Articles About Village Council

• YS Police Department expands victim advocacy services to Cedarville, Jamestown

  By Reilly DixonApril 10, 2025

  

  At a special meeting, Monday, March 31, Village Council approved two resolutions to provide advocacy services to victims of misdemeanor crimes of violence committed not just in Yellow Springs, but also in Jamestown and Cedarville.

• Village enters contract for prosecutorial services

  By Reilly DixonMarch 28, 2025

  

  At Village Council’s most recent meeting, Monday, March 17, the group unanimously approved a resolution to authorize Village Manager Johnnie Burns to enter a contract with Springboro-based law firm Smith, Meier & Webb, LPA to provide prosecution services for the Village.

• Water Superintendent reports 36 million gallons lost in 2024

  By Reilly DixonMarch 11, 2025

  

  Over the course of the year, the Village plant treated 115 million gallons, but billed for 79 million, a 31% loss. The department is unable to account for that water — specifically, where it came from.

• YS Police Chief Burge breaks down 2024 stats

  By Reilly DixonMarch 5, 2025

  

  The yearly state-of-the-department presentation included aspirational three-year goals for the local police force, data on last year’s 911 calls, department awards, funding initiatives, community survey results and general incident statistics.

• Village Council considers repealing economic incentive policy

  By Reilly DixonFebruary 13, 2025

  

  According to Village Solicitor Amy Blankenship and Planning and Economic Development Director Meg Leatherman, a the Village’s economic incentive policy complicates the process of new businesses, developments or nonprofits setting up shop in Yellow Springs.

• Online posts raise concerns over privacy, transparency

  By Lauren ShowsJanuary 30, 2025

  

  A group of messages shared in a local Facebook group earlier this month has raised questions, both broad and specific, about transparency and ethics within public bodies and the separation of public identities from private ones.

• With $680k pledged for new soccer fields, LIHTC project advances

  By Reilly DixonJanuary 27, 2025

  

  Should Woda Cooper successfully be awarded the $15 million in low-income housing tax credits from the Ohio Housing Finance Agency to build a low-income housing development, the district would have $689,000 to turn the Joneses’ cornfield into playable soccer fields.

• More LIHTC questions than answers at school board meeting

  By Reilly DixonJanuary 16, 2025

  

  At the center of the fraught discussion was the ongoing, intergovernmental initiative to build a 30- to 50-unit low-income housing development on the district-owned Morgan soccer fields.

• LIHTC developer seeks site control of district-owned land

  By Reilly DixonJanuary 8, 2025

  

  As was discussed at Monday’s Village Council meeting, one matter still stands in the way of Columbus-based development company Woda Cooper LLC applying for the $15 million in low-income tax credits: getting site control of the Morgan Fields from the school district.

• 2024 In Review | Government

  By YS News StaffDecember 30, 2024

  

  2024 In Review: Village Government, Village Council, Planning Commission, Miami Township Trustees and the 2024 General Election.